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Sharing medical software: FOSS licensing in medicine

06/19/2007  
Relevance: 9.35
I have written a short guide to software licensing in medicine: Sharing medical software: FOSS licensing in medicine. This covers the problems of license proliferation, the issue of proprietarization and several other key licensing related issues.This is a work in progress. Please help me make this a valuable resource, by providing your comments and feedback.-Trotter
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Medwiki, the medical wiki

07/07/2007  
Relevance: 9.18
What happens when a fan of Free Software and wikies wish to motivate your girlfriend to her Medicine studies? You could think in many things but possibly not to create a multilanguage wiki about Medicine and human health to her, but was exactly that what I did, and I couldn't choose a best gift.
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Veterans Affairs Healthcare System No. 1

12/15/2007  
Relevance: 5.65
ABC news has a video and transcript :"Socialized medicine may sound un-American, but in fact, it's exactly what we provide to our American heroes -- the more than 5 million armed forces veterans and their families. They get health care that the government both pays for and delivers. It's the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, and according to health care experts such as Phil Longman -- it's become one of the best health care systems in the country. So how did the once-maligned VA transform itself?"First and foremost, by pioneering electronic medical records," Longman said."Which is a much bigger deal than it might sound." Experts generally agree that electronic records are absolutely essential to significant health care reform. However, only about 5 percent of the nation's hospitals now have them. That means, for example, that in most private hospitals 20 percent of lab tests are repeated simply because doctors can't find a patient's results. But in the VA system, every patient's records are as close as a computer. It saves millions of dollars. And it's not just good business, it's good medicine..."
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College Taps Open-Source App to Solve Costly Paper Chase

09/12/2006  
Relevance: 5.50
The UNC School of Medicine turns to an open-source system to reduce the costs of course materials.
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Vista Gets Taste of Linux Medicine

02/14/2007  
Relevance: 5.25
It's humorous and sad, all at the same time. Vista users are closer than ever to the woes that used to plague many Linux users. The fact is that if you need NVIDA graphics to work with your favorite game, you just may be out of luck here.
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Emrupdate.com

09/12/2006  
Relevance: 5.19
Emrupdate.com is an interesting website that is a:'...independent healthcare technology site for a wide range of opinions on the best and worst EMRs as well as heated discussions by thought leaders over government policy, technology trends and other initiatives and the positive or negative impact these will have on the practice of medicine.'
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Patent system'stifling science'

09/25/2008  
Relevance: 4.89
Life-saving scientific research is being stifled by a"broken" patent system, according to a new report."Blocking patents" are delaying advances in cancer medicine and food crops, says the Canada-based Innovation Partnership, a non-profit consultancy. The full benefits of synthetic biology and nanotechnology will not be realised without urgent reforms to encourage sharing of information, they say.
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SNOWMED transferred to an international body, ready for inclusion in FOSS

04/28/2007  
Relevance: 4.87
The College of American Pathologists has justTransferred SNOWMED CT toInternational Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO). It is now available for use inside any of theIHTSDO Member countries if you are in the US, you can still get it fromNational Library of Medicine viaUMLSKS.However you still have to agree to the License Agreement for Use of the UMLS® Metathesaurus. It provides for some very FOSS unfriendly terms... included after the gap.
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Gov't Technology: Miracle Cure?

06/05/2007  
Relevance: 4.77
Government Technology News has a wide-ranging article on Free and Open Source Software in Medicine:"Doctors are fed up with the we-own-you, vendor lock-in, phone-home-to-the-mother-ship-to-do-anything status quo," he said. In addition, open source health IT applications are hitting their late teens, with more growth coming. What will be available in the next year, he said, will likely challenge anything in the proprietary world.
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Advocate Young Man/Woman, Advocate

09/05/2007  
Relevance: 4.74
Sit on the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) task force committee, write editorials, participate in government. These activities are of supreme importance for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in medicine to succeed. If FOSS advocates are not present or do not speak up at the table when decisions are being made, guess what direction the decisions will go? The power of advocacy works only when exercised.
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